At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide compassionate nursing care and support to residents in a retirement home.
- Company: Extendicare, a leader in long-term care with over 50 years of experience.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth.
- Other info: Join a mission-driven team dedicated to creating a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of seniors while developing your nursing skills.
- Qualifications: Current nursing certificate and experience in long-term care preferred.
The RPN/LPN will enhance the effective management and quality of nursing practice daily in keeping with the standards and expectations set out by governing bodies and internal policies and standards of care.
General Responsibilities:
- Ensure care is provided with established nursing standards and principles, physicians' orders and administrative policies.
- Observe, report and record vital signs, symptoms and conditions of residents/patients.
- Assure observance of required techniques in nursing care.
- Assist in assessing patients/residents and develop, implement, review and evaluate care plans.
- Monitor health, note changes in condition and assess need for referral to doctors; process and implement physicians' orders.
Qualifications:
- Appropriate current certificate of competence from the Approved Institutions for the province.
- Registration or eligible for registration with the Approved Institutions for the province.
- Previous managerial experience in long-term care or community homecare preferred.
- Experience dealing with the cognitively impaired.
- Comprehensive knowledge of nursing and health care practices, as well as knowledge in Infection Control Practices.
- Demonstrated commitment to working with seniors.
- Ability to present information clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing; an active listener who projects a friendly demeanour.
- Ability to collect and use information to thoroughly think through problems and situations; puts information from various sources together to see the 'big picture' and generate creative solutions.
- Organizational, planning, time management and multi-tasking skills.
Compensation will be discussed during the recruiting process. At Extendicare, we've spent more than 50 years dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for residents in our long-term care homes across Canada. When you join Extendicare, you become part of a compassionate, mission-driven team committed to creating a safe, supportive, and enriching environment for every resident we serve.
Extendicare is an equal opportunity employer committed to respectful and inclusive hiring practices. We welcome all applicants, including those from equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous peoples, women, people with disabilities, and visible minorities.
We acknowledge that the care we provide across Canada occurs on lands that have been cared for by many Indigenous peoples for generations. We recognize First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples and their enduring connection to this land, and the importance of respect and cultural safety in the work we do.
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